Celebrity-Series
Two pianoless quartets + two restless leaders = some of the best music of the last few years.
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The charmed trifecta of John Adams, Yuja Wang, and Gustavo Dudamel produced a hit, at least to this Boston audience.
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I’ve compiled a list of twelve concerts (or concert series) that I think will stand among the future season’s highlights.
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A bit surprising — that two megastars choose such meat and potatoes repertoire.
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Monica Bill Barnes, a dancer-choreographer, mime, storyteller and soft satirist, has riffed in the past on the pitfalls of dancing, the vanity of performers, the absurdities of adolescence. Now she’s looking at gender displacements and assertions.
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The seven-man musical wrecking squad from Austria called Mnozil Brass has created a combination circus band, village band, marching band, and vaudeville orchestra.
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Mark Morris and Ethan Iverson chose songs from the famous album for reflection and extrapolation. What they made is an entertainment, a romp for the company’s terrific dancers.
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John Heginbotham may be making modern dance but he gives us the gift of classicism: discovery within form.
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The show had an undercurrent that brought to the fore all the issues that have put Wynton Marsalis at the center of the culture wars.
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Dance Commentary: Paul Taylor — Now You See It, Virtually
I’ve always believed that dance has a literature, much like music or drama. Dance’s literature consists of both ideas (choreography) and the execution of ideas (performance).
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